Like old-fashioned Jew-hatred, anti-Zionism inverts the reality of Jewish vulnerability and victimization in order to justify irrational hatred of Jews and deny basic rights of self-defense to Jewish victims.
In modern times, we deny the tension, often choosing the self-righteous high horse on one side or the other and color coding our decisions according to partisan loyalties that both belong to Hermes.
" That story of self-interested adults trying to deny poor parents choice for their children provided an answer to Ms. Sackler's fundamental question: "If there are these high-performing schools that are closing the achievement gap, why aren't there more of them?
Their deliberations went on at the same time as Netanyahu and his envoys attempted to convince Obama to stop his mad rush to give Hamas an outlet to the sea and deny Israel even the most passive right of self defense.
There is nothing deceitful about ingratiation--it is merely strategic self-presentation designed to veil (not deny) personality traits that might chafe or offend.
As I noted in a piece posted here at the Policy Page a few days ago, there is much more to the Pakistan- United States relationship than meets the eye and efforts to deny the difficulties faced by Pakistan authorities for allying with the United States are self-serving and counter-productive to the war against terrorism.